KUDOS to Alderman French & others RUSHING IN to help keep PEACE in FERGUSON last nite

[sabrina 1]

13. You always have to ask 'who benefits' from rioting and looting? Certainly NOT most of the community

so we are left with either a few troublemakers who exist in every community, though generally in a situation like this those people CAN be kept under control by the larger community, or outsiders who want to make the community look bad, and there are plenty who would benefit from this.

First to benefit would be the local and county police who have outright stated they were wrongfully judged for their handling of the situation and who now must be extremely resentful that without them, things WERE peaceful. To start riots and looting would help them claim that they did the right thing, that these people need that kind of control.

Others who benefit, those elected officials who have been ordering in the militarized units, see OWS. These include mayors, both Repub and Dem, big controversy over this during OWS, and Govs among others. Some City Council members, not to mention members of Congress who VOTED for the militarization of the police.

In Canada I remember, protesters who were peaceful, began to notice certain people who showed up to cause trouble and began watching them. They caught a couple of them and discovered they were wearing police issue boots under their disguises.

I think this is what these protesters need to do, start following the obvious disrupters around and try to identify them. We might be surprised, or not, by what they discover.